 However, in the week leading up to the game, the cheapest standing tickets, originally sold for 3s 6d, were changing hands in Birmingham for twenty times face value, or 35% of a manual worker's weekly earnings.Manchester City spent the week preceding the final at a training camp in Eastbourne.Two days before the final Bert Trautmann, who had originally arrived in England as a prisoner of war, was named Footballer of the Year.